Interferons and viruses induce a novel truncated ACE2 isoform and not the full-length SARS-CoV-2 receptor

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    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Fixed cells were incubated with rabbit anti-FLAG antibody (1:250 dilution, Thermo Fisher) overnight, washed and then stained with anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 680 (1:500 dilution, Thermo Fisher).
    anti-FLAG
    suggested: None
    anti-rabbit
    suggested: None
    Cell lysates were analyzed by Western blots with C-terminal anti-ACE2 antibody (Abcam), and the amounts of recombinant ACE2-GFP and dACE2-GFP proteins in lysates were quantified by densitometry analysis (Imagelab, BD Biosciences) of Western blots.
    anti-ACE2
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Cells listed in Table S3 were infected in duplicates or triplicates with SeV (7.5×105 CEID50/ml) for 12 or 24 hrs as previously described19–21. Infections with SARS-CoV-2 in colon cancer cell lines (Caco2 and T84) and lung cancer cell line (Calu3) and colon and ileum organoid cultures were previously described23.
    Caco2
    suggested: None
    Organoids were infected with 3×105 FFU of the virus, based on titers in Vero E6 cells.
    Vero E6
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)
    T84 and Caco-2 cells were treated with IFN-γ (2 ng/ml) for 48 hrs, followed by cell harvesting, RNA extraction and expression analysis.
    Caco-2
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Cell lines were either used within 6 months after purchase or were periodically authenticated by microsatellite fingerprinting (AmpFLSTR Identifiler, Thermo Fisher) by the Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory/NCI).
    Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory/NCI
    suggested: None
    RNA-seq analysis of data from NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and TCGA: RNA-seq datasets (Table S6) were downloaded from NCBI SRA using SRA tools.
    NCBI Sequence Read Archive
    suggested: (NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA, RRID:SCR_004891)
    The FASTQ files were compressed using GZIP and aligned with STAR version 7.1.3a to the GRChg38/hg38 genome assembly.
    GZIP
    suggested: (Gzip, RRID:SCR_009291)
    STAR
    suggested: (STAR, RRID:SCR_015899)
    BAM files were indexed and sliced using SAM tools to include 51.6 Kb of the ACE2 genomic region (chrX:15,556,393-15,608,016, hg38).
    SAM
    suggested: (SAM, RRID:SCR_010951)
    https://www.cbioportal.org/).
    https://www.cbioportal.org/
    suggested: (cBioPortal, RRID:SCR_014555)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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